Double dummy bridge game



Feb. 11, 1936.

I. R. PARIS DOUBLE DUMMY BRIDGE GAME Filed .Sept. 23, 1952 6Sheets-Sheet l i I?! I v OOQUVJ-4-4-d-L2OQ Feb. 11, 1936.

l. R. PARlS DOUBLE DUMMY BRIDGE- GAME Filed Sept. 23, 1932 6Sheets-Sheet 2 Feb. 11, 1936.

|. PARIS 2,030,466

DOUBLE DUMMY BRIDGE GAME Filed Sept. 25, 1932 6 Sheets-Sheet 5 Feb. 11,1936. PARls 2,030,466

DOUBLE DUMMY BRIDGE GAME Filed Sept. 25, 1952 6 Sheets-Sheet 5 1 l l l lInvert/far.-

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Feb. 11, 1936. I. R. PARIS 2,030,466

DOUBLE DUMMY BRIDGE GAME Filed Sept. 25 1932 6 Sheets-Sheet 6 PatentedFeb. 11, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 26 Claims.

The present invention relates to a device which permits a card playersuch as a player of bridge to play a series'of double dummy bridge gamessuccessively, whereby he may test his skill in the bidding and playingof the game and thereby improve his skill in the game.

More particularly the present invention relates I to a novel devicewhich provides the ready display of a plurality of series of four bridgehands, each series of four bridge hands constituting a bridge game. Thehands and games are preferably preselected so as to illustrate anydesired principle or principles in the bidding and playing of the game.

It is the object of the present invention to provide such a device intheform of a small compact box or other structure so constructed anddesigned as to permit, by a simple manual operation the display of anyone of a plurality of series of printed indicia, each series consistingof four hands of thirteen playing cards each, and together constitutinga bridge game.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of the typedescribed with readily and manually operable devices to keep track ofthe cards in each hand as they are played in the course of the play ofthe game.

A further object of'the invention is to provide readily and manuallyoperable devices which will keep track of the tricks taken in the courseof the play of the game by North and South, and/or by East and West.

While the several forms of the invention disclosed and described in thepresent application are designed and adapted for the play of bridge, itis obvious that the invention may also be applied to the play of othercard games.

More particularly the present invention embodies a box having a coverplate provided with a series of elongated slots and display devicesdisposed below the cover plate, such display devices having printedthereon a plurality of bridge hands and operable to display a hand ofthirteen cards through each of the slots.

In order to simulate a bridge game'in actual play, the slots arepreferably disposed along the sides of a square and correspond with theconventional North, South, East and West positions of bridge players ata card table.

The display devices disposed below the cover plate may take on a varietyof forms. In one such form as disclosed in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, each slothas disposed below thereof a drum or roll having printed on itscircumferential face a series of preselected bridge hands by means ofthe conventhereon corresponding ployed; I

tional printed indicia. A set of four such rollers or drums is providedand the hands of such rollers are numbered to correspond with eachother, thereby facilitating the selection and display of four handswhich together constitute a bridge game.

In other forms of the invention disclosed herein webs having printedthereon a series of preselected hands may be employed. Such webs may beendless and in this form of the invention there would be a pair of rollscarrying a web having printed thereon the hands for North and South anda cooperating pair of rolls carrying a web having printed thereon thehands forEast and West.

-Such webs, if desired, may also be attached to such rolls and may thenbe operated to wind or unwind as desired.

It will be understood that these several forms of the invention eachoffer the possibility of displaying a difierent number of games within abox of the same dimensions. The form employing drums, rolls or cylindershaving the hands printed on its cylindrical surface offers the greatestlimitation on the number of hands or games that may be embodied in onestructure. The employment of endless webs considerably increases thenumber of games that may be displayed and the employment of the windingrolls increases the number of games that may be embodied in a singlestructure even further.

Other objects of the invention will become apparent from the followingdescription and the drawings which constitute a part of the presentapplication.

In the drawings:

' Fig. 1 represents a plan view of the cover plate and it will beunderstood as the description of the several forms of the inventionprogresses, that the cover plate shown herein may be employed with anyone of the forms of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of one embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2; i

Fig. 4 is a sectional View of a detail relating to one form of means forindicating the cards played or unplayed in the progress-of the game;

Fig. 5 is a side view of such detail;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of such detail;

Fig. 71s a plan view ofa modified form of the invention in which webshaving printed indicia to bridge hands are em- Fig. 8 is a plan view ofthe form shown in Fig. 7 with the cover plate removed;

Fig. 9 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 99 of Fig. 7;

Fig. 10 is a sectional detail view taken on the line III-l0 of Fig. 7;

Fig. 11 is a plan view of another form of the invention with the coverplate removed;

Fig. 12 is an end view of the form shown in Fig. 1 1

Fig. '13 is a side view of one of the indicators employed in the formshown in Figs. 9 and 10, and

Fig. 14 is a plan view of the same indicator element.

Referring now more specifically to the form of the invention disclosedin Figs. 1 and 2 and detail figures associated therewith,'the presentdevice includes a box 20 having a cover plate 2! and any desiredsecuring device may be employed for holding the box and cover plate inassembled relation and which may be readily disassembled so as toprovide ready access tothe interior of the box when it is desired, forexample, to replace the drums, rolls or webs disposed in the box byanother set of drums, rolls or webs. The cover plate 2! has the slots N,S, E and W which constitute the conventional representation for theNorth, South, East and West positions of the bridge hands in abridgegame. At one end of each slot and preferably somewhat spaced from theend of the slot is disposed an opening which is designed to display thenumber of the hand or game. For reasons which will appear more clearlyin the further description of the various forms of the invention andparticularly in connection with the description of the forms employingwebs, the openings 22 for the North and South hands are disposed atopposite ends of the corresponding slots. Similarly, the openings 23 forthe East and West hands are disposed at diagonally opposite ends of thecorresponding slots. These openings 22 and 23 are designed to displaythe number of the game or hand. In other words, in order to display agame for play the display devices are operated until the numberdisplayed in each of the openings 22 and 23 is the same, showing thatthe hands displayed in the corresponding slots N, S, E and W constitutetogether a bridge game.

At the-opposite end of each slot N, S, E or W is another opening 24.This opening 24 is designed to properly cooperate and.- register withthe display devices disposed under the cover plate so as to displaytherethrough the declaration at which that particular game is played.Moreover, the display devices disposed under the cover plate have adeclaration printed thereon only in asso-- ciation with the declarershand. The result will be that when the display devices are operated soas to display a preselected bridge game, such as for example, game No.1, as shown in the drawings, the declaration will appear only in oneopening 24," whereas nothing will be displayed through the remainingopenings 24. In the case shown in the drawings, the insignia 5C. appearsin the opening 24 associated with the slot S..

This indicates that in this particular game South is the declarer andthe contract or declaration is five clubs.

Referring now more specifically to the form of the invention embodied inFigs. 2, 3 and 4, the box enclosesfour drums, rolls or cylinders 25,associated with the slots N. S, E and W, one such cylinder for eachslot. The cylinder may be made in any suitable manner and is preferablythereof which partially projects through a slot 21 in the cover plate.The cylinder carries on its cylindrical face a series of preselectedbridge hands, these covering the entire cylindrical surface of the roll,drum or cylinder. Each bridge hand also has printed alongside thereofthe number of the hand which is displayed through the opening 22 or 23.In such cases where the nature of the bridge hand is such that itsrelation to the remaining three hands which makes a bridge game leads inthe proper bidding of the hands to a contract originated in the hand,the cylinder also has printed thereon and in line with the bridge handthe declaration or contract.

Each of these cylinders is so disposed within the box and below thecover plate as to permit of its manual rotation so as to display anydesired bridge game. This may be accomplished in any suitable manner. Inthe specific embodiment of the invention disclosed herein, each drumorcylinder 25 is provided with a pin 28 at each end thereof which serve toengage the resilient metal brackets 29 carried by the under-face of thecover plate. The brackets 29 are preferably so shaped as to provide abowed portion 30 which serves to receive the pins 28 and rotatably holdthe drum or roll 25 in proper registry with the cooperating slots andopenings in the cover plate. In the presentation of double dummy bridgegames for study, it is customary to indicate to the student the openinglead. Where desired, therefore, the same may be done in the presentdevice in a variety of ways, as for example, the opening lead may beindicated by means of a separately printed indication alongside theleading hand, the cover plate being designed to permit the display ofsuch indication. In the present invention, however, it is preferred thatno such separate printing be done but that merely the leading card beindicated by some symbol as for example by enclosing this card in asquare as shown at 3| in Fig. 2. It will be noted that in the gamedisplayed in Fig. 2 the contract arrived at is five clubs, with South asdeclarer and the King of Diamonds in the 'West hand is indicated as thefirst lead.

= It will now be understood that by means of the structure thus fardescribed, a simple compact device is made available to bridge playerswhich each player may employ to test his skill in the play of the gameand to improve his game thereby. The rollers or drums 25, as shown, arereadily removable and after a player has exhausted the possibilities ofstudy and learningin the hands or games made available by one set ofrolls or drums, the set may be removed and a new set ofrolls having adifferent set of hands or games may be substituted therefor.

It will be understood that if desired the series of hands, together withthe rules thereof and other indicia such as the contract for each gamefor each roll or cylinder may be printed on a flat sheet of paper orother fabric and then applied to a roll made of any material, such as bypasting or otherwise.

' While many bridge players are capable of following through the play ofa hand mentally without having any record of the cards played and tricksscored, it is desirable to provide the present device with readilyoperable means which will give a definite indication at any time in theplay of the game whether any card in the game has already been played orstill remains unplayed. For this purpose the cover plate has attached tothe underface thereof a bracket 32 somewhat removed from each slot N, S,E or W. While this bracket may take on a variety of forms, the specifieform shown in Figs. 3 and 4 comprises a relatively long and narrow strip33 having an upwardly bent leg 34 at each end thereof, each leg havingan outwardly bent foot portion 35. This foot portion is preferablyattached to the underface of the cover plate by any means such as therivet 36. The strip 33 also has along each longitudinal edge thereof abent-in strip indicated by the reference characters 31 and 31'. Aspindle 38 extends the whole length of the bracket and is suitablymounted in the end walls 34, as shown. The spindle 38 carries a seriesof thirteen playing indicators 39, freely rotatable on the spindle. Whenthis indicator assembly comprising the bracket and set of thirteenindicators is properly mounted under the cover plate, the indicators 39project partly through the elongated slots 40 in the cover plate, therebeing one such slot for each card at each position N, S, E and W, andprovides one indicator for each playing card.

The indicators may be of any suitable form provided they are so designedand constructed that they may be readily and freely operated from oneposition to the other and thereby indicate whether the card assoiatedtherewith has been played or not. One specific form of such indicator isshown in Figs. and 6 and may be made of wood, metal, plastic material,or the like and comprises the relatively large semi-cylindrical portionM and hubs d2, one on each side thereof, the hubs having centralpassages to receive the spindle 33. These indicators are constructed anddesigned in the manner shown in these figures so that they may be freelyplaced on the spindle 38 and freely rotate'thereon independently of eachother.

The outer cylindrical face 43 of the portions 4| of the indicators mayhave any desired indicator disposed thereon so as to indicate whetherthe card has been played or not. In the present embodiment of theinvention, one sector of this face is painted red and the other sectoris painted green, one of these colors, such as red, indicating that thecard has already been played, and the other color, such as green,indicating that the card has not yet been played. The indicator assemblyis so designed with relation to the cover plate and the slot 40 thatwhen the assembly is mounted on the underface of the cover plate, onlyapproximately one-half of face 43 is displayed through the slot. Theoperation of the indicators and indicator assembly will now becomeapparent.

After a student or player has selected any de sired game he moves all ofthe play indicators 39 so that they all display green. This may bereadily accomplished by a rapid and simple movement of his fingers orfinger tips over the portion of the indicators projected through theslots db. Having assured himself that all indicators display green, hethen proceeds with the play of the game, and of each hand. As each cardis played a simple movement of the indicator associated with the cardthrows the indicator into such a position as to display red, therebyshowing that this card has already been played. The strips 31, 31 serveas stops for the movement of the indicators for the reason thatshoulders 44 thereof strike the stop strip 37 and the shoulders 45strike the stop strip 31'.

In order to permit the player to keep record of the tricks taken byNorth and South and/or by East and West, two other indicator and bracketassemblies, identical with the one already described, are disposed onthe underface of the cover plate immediately below the slots 46 and 41.As indicated in Fig. 1, the slot 46 has printed indicia thereon toindicate that these are tricks taken by North and South and the slot 41has printed indicia thereon to indicate that these are tricks taken byEast and West. To further simplify the keeping of a record of the trickstaken the space on the cover plate disposed below the slots 46 and 41has numbers 1 to 13 printed thereon in association with the immediatelyadjacent indicators. Here, too, before the beginning of play theindicators 39 may be moved so that they all show red or green, asdesired and as each trick is taken the correspondingindicator of theside taking the trick is operated to display the other color, therebyshowing that this side has taken that particular trick.

Turning now to the form of the invention shown in Figs. '7, 8 and9, itwill be understood that the cover plate of this box has substantiallythe same outward appearance as the cover plate shown in Fig. 1 of thedrawings. In this form of the invention, however, in order to providefor the embodiment of a much greater number of games in the same compactspace, a pair of webs M and 59 are employed, each web having a pair ofspools 5t and at cooperating therewith. The spools may be carried by theunderface of the cover plate in the same manner as that shown in Fig. 3.

If desired means may be provided whereby both webs may be operatedsimultaneously and in either direction. For this purpose each spool isprovided with a bevel gear 52 in the manner shown in Fig. 8, the Northand South spools having their shafts extending to carry the wheels 53and 54 respectively for the ready manipulation of the spools and webs.It will be understood that by the manipulation of the wheel 53 the web48 is unrolled on the lower spool and is wound onto the upper spool andthe web 49 is unrolled from the East spool and wound on the West spool.The manipulation of the wheel 54 will reverse the direction of movementof the webs.

Referring now to Figs. 9 and 10, it will be seen that the spools insteadof being disposed immediately below the slots, are mounted along theline removed from the slots, thereby permitting a fiat portion of theweb to be displayed through the slots. In order to facilitate the properdisplay of the hand through the slots the cover plate is preferablyprovided with a strip 55 immediately under each slot, the strip beingsomewhat spaced from the cover plate and permitting of the travel of theweb between the strip 55 and the adjacent portion of the cover plate.The strip preferably has a lipped portion 56 which assists in the freeoperation of the webs thereover. If desired the four strips 55 together,may constitute an integral frame, as shown.

It will be understood that in the operation of the form of the inventiondisclosed in Figs. '1 and 8 a hand which had previously been displayedas the South hand and together with three other hands constituted agame, will sometime subsehands that were associated with its firstdisplay.

the space between "the slots N and Sis made different from the spacebetween the slots of E and W. More specifically, in the present form ofthe invention the space between the slots N and S is made longer thanthe space between the slots E and W. This difference is made tocorrespond to the smaller dimension of a printed hand or the differencein the two spaces may correspond to an integral multiple of this smallerdimension.

It will now be understood why the openings 22, 23 and 24 are disposed inthe specific manner shown. This is for the reason that any particularhand may be associated with game No. 1 or the like at one time and maysubsequently be associated with a game of a different number. In theform of the invention shown in Figs. 7, 8, 9 and 10 in which webs areemployed, some of the hands have two identifying numbers, one at eachend thereof. It will be understood that when any specific hand isdisplayed at S one of these numbers will be displayed through theopening 22 at the left hand thereof and when the same hand is displayedthrough the slot N the other number at the other end of the hand will bedisplayed through the slot 22. For the same reason the openings 24 whichare designed to display the contract of the declaring hand are sodisposed that no confusion is likely to arise. In other words, whereasany specific hand, when displayed through the slot S may arrive at acertain contract, when the same hand is associated with another set ofhands in a different game, the hand now being displayed through the slotN may not be the declarer at all or else the contract may be different.For this reason a space is provided at each end of each hand to bear theprinted indication of the contract so that the same may be properlydisplayed through the proper opening 2 5.

The form of the invention disclosed in Figs. 7 to 10 inclusive is alsoprovided with a set of indicators for each hand and with two additionalsets of indicators for keeping a record of the tricks. It is obviousthat the indicators shown in Figs. 3 to 6 inclusive may also be employedin this form of the invention. Figs. 9 and 10, however, show a difierentform of indicating devices and a different manner of operating the same.In the form shown in these figures the indicator assembly is soorganized that while each of them may be operated individually andmanually, means are provided for operating a set of indicators in unisonso that they may all display the same color or other indicia at thebeginning of play.

More specificaly, this form of indicator assembly comprises a bracketattached to the underface of the cover plate having a pair of end plates51 and three rods 58, 59 and 60 disposed in the manner shown in Figs. 9and 10 and carried by the end plates. The rod 58 is in the nature of arocker shaft and has extending therefrom and integral therewith theplate 6|. An arm 62 is also attached to one end of the rocker shaft 58,the upper free end of the arm 62 projecting through a corresponding slot68 in the cover plate. The shaft 60 carries a series of thirteenindicators 63 each individually and freely rotatable through a limitedangle on the rod 60. The hub portion 64 of each indicator 63 is providedwith the projecting pin 65.

Each indicator element 63 is constructed approximately in the samemanner as the indicator element39 shown in Figs. and. 6. The element Inoperation, at the beginning of play of a hand I the operator moves eacharm 62 from the full line position to the dotted line position shown inFig. 9. The strip 6| thereby engages the lugs or pins 65 and moves allindicators in the set associated therewith to the position where thepins or lugs 65 engage the shaft 59 and all indicators then display thesame color, showing that the cards had not been played and that notricks had been taken. If desired the operator may immediatelythereafter move the arm 62 back to its full line position. This,however, is not necessary by reason of the fact that as soon as thefirst card in any particular hand is played the manual operation of theindividual indicator associated with the particular card causes its pin65 to push the strip 6| back to the position shown in Fig. and the arm62 is moved therewith. Thereafter the indicators are each free to beoperated manually in the play of each card and thereby indicate that theparticular card has already been played. The ends of the slot 68 serveas stops for the movement of the arm 62 and for the rocker shaft 58 andstrip 6| associated therewith.

It will be understood that in this form of the invention, as in the formillustrated in Fig. 1, the device may also be provided with .sets oftrick counters as described.

In the form of the invention shown in Figs. 11 and 12, two endless webs69 and 10 are employed, the web 69 being carried by spools H and 12 forthe North and South hands and the web 10 being carried by spools 13and," for the East and West hands. These spools are manually operable insubstantially the same manner as the spools appearing in Figs. 2, 3 and4 and if desired a positive engagement between the spools and the websmay be provided in the form of teeth 15 carried by the spools andopenings 16 provided in the webs for engagement therewith.

Like the other forms of the invention described herein, the form shownin Fig. 11 may also be provided with the card indicators and trickcounters and is otherwise so constructed as to give all of theindications previously described and associated with the other forms ofthe invention.

I claim:

1. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate, said plate having four elongated slots therein, andmeans carrying insignia of playing cards, said means being operable todisplay through said slots preselected groups of said insignia formingany one of a plurality of possible bridge games, each game consisting offour simultaneously displayed hands, one hand being displayed througheach slot.

2. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate having four elongated slots disposed along the sidesof a rectangle and corresponding to the North, South, East and Westpositions of bridge hands, and means carrying insignia of playing cards,said means being disposed below said plate and operable to displaythrough said slots preselected groups of said insignia forming any oneof a plurality of possible bridge games, each game consisting of foursimultaneously displayed hands, one hand being displayed through eachslot.

3. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate, said plate having four elongated slots therein, andmeans carrying insignia of playing cards, said means being operable todisplay through said slots preselected groups of said insignia formingany 'one of a plurality of possible bridge games, each consisting offour simultaneously displayed hands,

one hand being displayed through each slot, and manually operable meansfor registering the progress of the play of the game.

5. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dy bridgecomprising a plate, said plate having four elongated slots therein,means carrying insignia of playing cards, said means being operable todisplay through said slots preselected groups of saidinsignia formingany one of a plurality of possible bridge games, each game consisting offour simultaneously displayed hands, one hand being displayed througheach slot, and manually operable means for registering the progress ofthe play of the game, said last named means comprising a manuallyoperable indicator for each card in each hand.

6. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate, said plate having four elongated slots therein,means carrying insignia of playing cards, said means being operable todisplay through said slots preselected groups of said insignia formingany one of a plurality of possible bridge games, each game consisting offour simultaneously displayed hands, one hand being displayed througheach slot, and manually operable means for registering the progress ofthe play of the game, said last named means comprising a manuallyoperable indicator for each card in each hand, and having one positionto indicate that the card associated therewith had notbeen played and asecond position to indicate that the card associated therewith had beenplayed.

'7. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate, said plate having four elongated slots therein,means carrying insignia. of laying cards, said means being operable todisplay through said slots preselected groups of said insignia formingany one of a plurality of possible bridge games, each game consisting offour simultaneously displayed hands, one hand being displayed througheach slot, and manually operable means for registering the progress ofthe play of the game, said last named means comprising an indicator foreach card operable to indicate whether the card associated therewith hadbeen played or is still to be played.

8. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate, said plate having four elongated slots therein,means carrying insignia of playing cards, said means being operable todisplay through said slots preselected groups of said insignia formingany one of a plurality of possible bridge games, each game consisting offour simultaneously displayed hands, one hand being displayed througheach slot and a group of indicators permanently associated with eachslot, said indicators being manually operable to register the progressof the play of the game.

9. A new article .of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate, said plate having four elongated slots therein,means carrying insignia of playing cards, said means being operable todisplay through said slots preselected groups oi. said insignia formingany one of a plurality of possible bridge games, each game consisting offour simultaneously displayed hands, one hand being displayed througheach slot and a group of indicators permanently associated with eachslot, said indicators being manually operable to register the progressof the play of the game, and means for simultaneously moving the groupof indicators from one indicating position to another indicatingposition.

10. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate, said plate having four elongated slots therein,means carrying insignia of playing cards, said means being operable todisplay through said slots preselected groups of said insignia formingany one of a plurality of possible bridge games, each game consisting offour simultaneously displayed hands, one hand being displayed througheach slot, a group of indicators associated with each slot, saidindicators permanently being manually operable to register the progressof the play of the game, and two additional series of indicatorsmanually operable to register the tricks scored. 11. A new article ofmanufacture for the play of double dummy bridge comprising a platehaving four elongated slots in the face thereof, and a roll rotatablymounted immediately below each slot, 'the cylindrical face of each rollhaving printedthereon a series of bridge hands, each hand being disposedlongitudinally of the roll and adapted to be displayed through itscorresponding slot.

12. Anew article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate having four elongated slots in the face thereof, saidslots being disposed along the sides of a rectangle, and a rollrotatably mounted immediately below each slot, the cylindrical face ofeach roll having printed thereon a series of possible bridge handseachhand being disposed longitudinally of the roll and adapted to bedisplayed through its corresponding slot, the roll also carrying a gamenumber adjacent each hand, the hands of the same number on the fourdrums constituting a possible bridge game.

13. cA new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate having four elongated slots in the face thereof, saidslots being disposed along the sides of 9. rectangle, a pair ofcooperating brackets-carried by the under face of said cover plateadjacent each slot, and a roll rotatably mounted in each of said pair ofbrackets, the cylindrical face of each roll having printed thereon. aseries of possible bridge hands, each hand being disposed longitudinallyof the roll and adapted to be displayed through its corresponding slot,the roll also carrying a game number adjacent each hand, the hands ofthe same number on the'four drums constituting a possible bridge game.

14. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate having four elongated slots disposed along the sidesof a rectangle, said slots corresponding tothe North, South, East andWest positions of bridge hands, and a pair of webs each having a seriesof possible bridge hands disposed transversely thereon, disposed belowsaid plate, means for moving said webs so as to display any fourpreselected hands through said slots, the hands on said webs being soarranged that any one of a plurality of possible bridge games may bedisplayed through said slots.

15. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate having four elongated slots disposed along the sidesof a rectangle, said slots corresponding to the North, South, East andWest positions of bridge hands, a pair of endless webs, each having aseries of possible bridge hands disposed transversely thereon, disposedbelow said'plate, means for moving said webs so as to display any fourpreselected hands through said slots, the hands on said webs being soarranged that any one of a plurality of possible bridge games may bedisplayed through said slots.

16. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate having four elongated slots disposed along the sidesof a rectangle, said slots corresponding to the North, South, East andWest positions of bridge players, the plate also having one openingadiacent one end of each slot and another opening in line with butspaced from the opposite ,end of each slot, and a pair of webs, eachhaving a series of possible preselected bridge hands, identifyingnumbersand the contract for each game printed thereon, and means formoving said webs to display said hands through said slots, and saidnumbers and declarations through said openings, the hands on said websbeing so arranged that any one of a plurality of possible bridge gamesmay be displayed through said slots.

17. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate having four elongated slots disposed along the sidesof a rectangle, said slots corresponding to the North, South, East andWest positions of bridge hands, a pair of endless webs, each having aseries of possible bridge hands disposed transversely thereon, disposedbelow said plate, means for moving said webs so as to display any fourpreselected hands through said slots, the hands on said webs being soarranged-that any one of a plurality of possible bridge games may bedisplayed through said slots, the space between one pair of opposedslots being greater than the space between the other pair.

18. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a casing plate having four elongated slots disposed along thesides of a rectangle, said slots correspondingto the North, South, Eastand West positions of bridge hands, and a pair of webs each having aseries of possible bridge hands disposed transversely thereon disposedbelow said cover plate, means for moving said webs so as to display anyfour preselected hands through said slots, the hands on said websbeingso arranged that any one of a plurality of possible bridge gamesmay be displayed through said slots, said plate also having suitablydisposed openings, and said webs having suitably arranged printedindicia, whereby a game is identified by a number displayed through someof said openings, each game also gisplaying the contract alongside thedeclarers and. l

1 9. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate hav- ,the arrangement being such that some hands maybe displayed in more than one game, the plate having suitable openingsand the webs bearing suitable indicia for display through said openingsto indicate the number of the game, and

the contract at which the game is to be played.

20. A set of four rolls, each having printed on its cylindrical surfaceand longitudinally thereof a series of bridge hands, said hands being soselected that any handon any one of the rolls together with at least onehand on each of the remaining rolls constitutes a bridge game.

21. A pair of webs each having printed thereon a series of bridge hands,said hands being so selected that any hand on either web together withanother hand on the same web and spaced from the first hand and withanother pair of spaced hands on the second web constitute a possiblebridge game.

22. A new article of manufacture for self instruction in the game ofbridge comprising a plate and four groups of manually operableindicators carried by said plate, said groups being arranged along thesides of a square, the space within the square being adapted to receivedisplay means having printed insignia of playing cards arranged todisplay four bridge hands spaced from said indicators, each of saidindicators having two indicating positions and being individuallyoperable from either position to the other to indicate whether thecardassociated therewith has been played or not, without disturbing thecard insignia.

23. A new article of manufacture for self in struction in the game ofbridge and adapted for use with means carrying printed insignia ofplaying cards arranged for display of four bridge hands on said plate,and four groups of manually operable indicators carried by said plate,one group for each bridge hand, each indicator having two indicatingpositions and being independently operable to indicate whether the cardassociated therewith has been played or not, without disturbing the cardinsignia.

24. A new article of manufacture for self instruction in the game ofbridge comprising a. plate, four groups of manually operable indicatorscarried by said plate, said groups being disposed along the sides of asquare, each indicator having two positions, and means for displayingplaying card insignia adjacent and spaced from said indicators.

' 25. A new article of manufacture for self instruction in the game ofbridge comprising a plate adapted for use with means carrying insigniaof playing cards and arranged to display along the sides of a rectanglefour bridge hands, and a lineal group of manually operable indicatorscarried by said plate adjacent and spaced from each bridge hand, each ofsaid indicators having one position to indicate that the correspondingcard still remains to be played and a second position to indicate thecorresponding card has been played, said indicators being movaoso ieeable from one position to the other without disturbing the cardinsignia.

26. A new article of manufacture for the play of double dummy bridgecomprising a plate having four elongated slots disposed along the sidesof a square, readily manipulable means disposed on the under side of theplate and operable to display through said slots preselected groups ofcard insignia forming any one of a plurality of bridge games, a roddisposed on the under side.

of the plate parallel to each of the slots 'and spaced laterallytherefrom, and a series of rotatable indicators carried by each of saidrods,

said plate having openings in registry with said indicators to permitthe ready manipulation thereof.

